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A bit of October 8th history…
1480 - Great Standing on the Ugra River: standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Ivan III Grand Prince of all Rus; Tatar-Mongols retreat, leads to disintegration of the Horde
1871 - Great Fire of Chicago kills 200 people and destroys over 4 square miles of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation (pictured)
1871 - the original Emancipation Proclamation
1917 - Leon Trotsky named chairman of Petrograd Soviets as Bolsheviks gain control
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1971 - John Lennon releases the single “Imagine”
1998 - US House of Reps votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
2001 - US President GW Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2018 - Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2040 with dire results
2019 - FBI confirm Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer in history after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
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